Desolation as a form of beauty is a moment of perception where loneliness usurps the idea of companionship and replaces it with wonder in the silence.
Pattern, Shadow, and presence are all that matter in a place where salt and wind prevail.
One tiny cloud dares to block the mighty sun where seldom boats set sail
where the sands are more wispy and vapid than the clouds that reflect between their pools
where long abandoned ties are cast like earthly jewels
and perceptions like infections throw us into views...
the likes of which are sightly for even the unlikeliest of muse.
thanks for viewing and musing with me on this journey that is as much an introspection as it is an external observation.
Camera: Mamiya RB67 Pro-S
Lens: Mamiya Sekor 50mm C lens
Filter: Tiffen 25A except for the first image where a Conkin +8 Graduated Neutral Density Filter was used, my first time and the third frame on the roll.
Location: The great Salt Lake near Saltair, the Salt Palace, and the Audubon bird sanctuary on three different days within a single month in March 2012.
Film was digitized using a Nikon P5100 snapping 12MP images of Negatives backlit on a Chromega diffuser head inverted, focusing through the body of a Mamiya Waste level viewfinder to hold the negatives flat over the light unit.
Processing: Dust and fibers were removed from the images digitally, and in some instances lens flare was removed to equate to what the natural eye perceives as was with the first image in this series.
Silent_Soliquy April 2012.
I challenge myself to shoot on the same stretch of 50meters of beach to always find something different but constrained within the same time frame of sunset in black and white. I do this to show myself that no matter how many times you do a scene and location you always can find something new and interesting on good days and bad.
perhaps you can see why for me, film is an enigmatic mirror of perception and a suspension of disbelief for the miracles that happen every second of every day.
